Wreckerator: Hey, boss!Bakery Owner: Nice day off?Wreckerator: Yeah, how was business?Bakery Owner: Um, you remember that chocolate cake you made the other day?Wreckerator: Yeah, it looked swell, didn’t it?Bakery Owner: Uh-huh. I had to knock fifty percent off the price just to get the customer to stop screaming and take the cake. With that…inscription.Wreckerator: What was wrong with it?Bakery Owner: You’re kidding.Wreckerator: Nope, I don’t get it.Bakery Owner: Figures. Why are you still here, anyway?Wreckerator: What do you mean?Bakery Owner: Didn’t you see that note I put on your time card?Wreckerator: Yeah, but I wasn’t going to try that “don’t let the doorknob hit you in the butt” thing until I went home tonight.Bakery Owner: *Sigh…*

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WV: scorping. That wreckerator will be scorping the want ads for a new job!

Do you ever wonder if some bakeries just have a really strict policy for writing the inscription verbatim? they must see really weird stuff, so maybe they have just been trained really well to write whatever is listed, no matter how odd.

alternatively...maybe they are foreign, so they don't always know the difference between inscription instructions and actual inscriptions.

i can't read that title without hearing it as westley said it while falling down the huge hill...aaaas yoooou wiiiish...!!! hahahahaha i'm so glad you love all the same movies i love, it makes for much funnier posts:)

This makes me want to order three cakes from three of our bakeries in town and on each one write "Leave the inscription blank please, thank you" and see what each of the cakes look like... maybe I'll have to budget for that project...

And I was horribly afraid that this would happen to me for my baby shower cake. I aaaaalmost wrote "no text" on the order, then had flashes in my head of a gorgeous baby shower cake with "NO TEXT" in curly pink icing.

Well if you want something else to look at, no I don't believe the cake was photoshopped. Instead, look carefully at the shape of the rectangle. How it fits with the pattern of the cake, there's a little bit that comes off the edge. And look at how it fades some of the chocolate and leaves some of it blotchy.

Yeah, it was faked. They laid down a sheet of plastic or clear wax paper before piping on top of it.

So I have to ask: how WOULD they have had to write the instructions so this particular cake-decorator would refrain from writing anything on the cake? Because I keep envisioning a row of cakes with "NONE" and "This space intentionally left blank" on them.

While I don't think it's been photoshopped, it does look like the words were written on a big piece of clear tape that was placed onto the cake. Is that a standard decorating method? Is the "tape" edible?

We once ordered a cake for a birthday party where we asked for it to say "Happy Birthday Bill" and we told them to use black.Yep, we picked it up for it to read "Happy Birthday Bill in Black."We didn't take a picture (we should have!!) and they fixed it, but seriously, when stuff like this happens I just have to laugh!!

Sometimes, I'd just love to be in the bakery when the cake decorator reads the card "Leave... blank... Huh. That's weird. Is that right? Well. Maybe it means something. Is there a Blank, Maryland? Hm. Or, like... nah, whatever. Customer's always right, I guess. Idiots."

Some bakeries routinely use clear plastic to write inscriptions on, particularly for fruit or ganache-topped cakes. So yes, the inscription was piped on acetate, but no, it was not an intentional mistake. We're told the lady who did it is not a native English speaker.

Erin said... "Do you ever wonder if some bakeries just have a really strict policy for writing the inscription verbatim...maybe they have just been trained really well to write whatever is listed... maybe they are foreign..."*****Etc., etc., AND etc.PLEASE. Stop being nice.There IS no excuse.And as for your last question: "Who checks these things???"I am tossing out this Wild and Crazy idea:NOBODY checks anything.

About that "strawberry"...how the hell small is that CAKE, anyway? (Looks like a chocolate-dipped postcard, for corn's sake.) Either that's one whopper of a mutant berry, or it's really just a big old turnip in drag.>^!!^<

@"Jen", 2:35pm...Who do you think you are, telling everyone it's real? Why would you assume the artist is "not a native speaker"? You arrogant, pompous American elitist!

Of course it's a fake. Everyone knows that the highest honor an anonymous bakery can achieve is to trick the makers of Cake Wrecks into featuring their intentional wreck on this blog. They're obviously trying to collaspe the foundation of realism this blog is based upon.

So funny that I stumbled upon this. I worked at this bakery. This happened at Ralph's Del Mar and I even still have the picture on my phone. The lady who wrote the inscription is a Russian woman who has been working in the US for 12 years yet can still barely speak two words of correct English. Nothing happened; thankfully the customer participated in the laugh and bought the cake at normal price!

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